A HISTORY OF CANOE COVE m

that when Annie was about thirteen years of age she had her appendix removed, the operation being performed on the lnman kitchen table. 1 do not know why she was not taken to Hospital. Perhaps she was too ill to make the trip with a horse and sleigh or wagon. At any rate Dr. Stephen Jenkins, a brilliant Charlottetown surgeon of the time. successfully operated on Annie and she made an excellent recovery. As far as I know she was the only one in the district to have such a serious operation done in her home.

Clara married John Angus Darrach and their family is shown under the Darrachs. David and Catherine were very kind and caring folks and cared for John Thomas’ children, Eleanor and James for a time. They also cared for Archibald MacDougall whose parents died when he was young. Catherine’s mother spent her last years at lnman’s and died there. This is a good example of how people of . this generation cared for their extended families. Now that Ernest is retired it is appropriate that the land be farmed by David's great grandsons Barry and Jamie MacPhee, who now own it.

THE lRLAMS.

Willard and Joan Irlam, from Charlottetown, bought Alex Darrach’s house Where they provided a home for foster children for several years. Willard retired early to devote time to a greenhouse and a garden, but died not many years after moving to our Cove. Meanwhile Joan had her candymaking business until her health failed and she died not long after Willard in 1990. They left two girls, Colleen, who had married Glen McDiarmid and lives in Vancouver, B.C., and Beverley, Who married‘Henry Gauthier and lives in the home. Beverly is talented artistically and musically and is the

organist of her church, She has three girls, Gina Foy. Shanahn andRobin.